Impact of patient characteristics on hospital-level outcomes assessment in congenital heart surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1071-1077

  Pasquali, Sara K ^a   Jacobs, Marshall L ^b,c,d   O'Brien, Sean M ^e   He, Xia ^e   Gaynor, J William ^f   Gaies, Michael G ^a   Peterson, Eric D ^e   Hirsch Romano, Jennifer C ^g   Mayer, John E ^h   Jacobs, Jeffrey P ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE MIX; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL; INFANT;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 84940721198     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.05.101     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (25)

1. J.P. Jacobs The science of assessing the outcomes and improving the quality of the congenital and paediatric cardiac care Curr Opin Cardiol 30 2015 100 111
2. M.G. Gaies, D.S. Cooper, S. Tabbutt, and et al. Collaborative quality improvement in the cardiac intensive care unit: development of the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) Cardiol Young 28 2014 1 7
3. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and pediatricians: evaluation and engagement. AAP news; Vol. 32 No. 1, January 1, 2011.
4. OptumHealth congenital heart disease resource services. Available at: https://www.myoptumhealthcomplexmedical.com/gateway/public/chd/chd.jsp. Accessed March 19, 2015.
5. U.S. News & World Report's Annual Ranking of Best Hospitals. Available at: http://www.rti.org/besthospitals. Accessed January 8, 2015.
6. STS Congenital Heart Surgery Public Reporting. Available at: http://www.sts.org/congenital-public-reporting-module-search. Accessed March 19, 2015.
7. S.M. O'Brien, D.R. Clarke, J.P. Jacobs, and et al. An empirically based tool for analyzing mortality associated with congenital heart surgery J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 138 2009 1139 1153
8. F. Lacour-Gayet, D. Clarke, J. Jacobs, and et al. The Aristotle score: a complexity-adjusted method to evaluate surgical results Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 25 2004 911 924
9. K.J. Jenkins, K. Gauvreau, J.W. Newburger, T.L. Spray, J.H. Moller, and L.I. Iezzoni Consensus-based method for risk adjustment for surgery for congenital heart disease J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 123 2002 110 118
10. J.P. Jacobs, S.M. O'Brien, S.K. Pasquali, and et al. The importance of patient specific preoperative factors: an analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database Ann Thorac Surg 98 2014 1653 1659
11. J.M. Costello, S.K. Pasquali, X. He, and et al. Gestational age at birth and outcomes after neonatal cardiac surgery: an analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database Circulation 129 2014 2511 2517
12. C.L. Curzon, S. Milford-Beland, J.S. Li, and et al. Cardiac surgery in infants with low birth weight is associated with increased mortality: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Database J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 135 2008 546 551
13. M.L. Jacobs, M. Daniel, C. Mavroudis, and et al. Report of the 2010 Society of Thoracic Surgeons congenital heart surgery practice and manpower survey Ann Thorac Surg 92 2011 762 768
14. R.C. Franklin, J.P. Jacobs, O.N. Krogmann, and et al. Nomenclature for congenital and paediatric cardiac disease: historical perspectives and The International Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code Cardiol Young 18 Suppl 2 2008 70 80
15. STS Database Full Specifications. Available at: http://www.sts.org/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/CongenitalDataSpecificationsV3-0-20090904.pdf. Accessed January 8, 2015.
16. D. Overman, J.P. Jacobs, R.L. Prager, and et al. Report from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database Workforce: clarifying the definition of operative mortality World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 4 2013 10 12
17. S.M. O'Brien, J.P. Jacobs, S.K. Pasquali, and et al. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database mortality risk model: part 1-statistical methodology Ann Thorac Surg 100 2015 1054 1062
18. E.R. DeLong, E.D. Peterson, D.M. DeLong, L.H. Muhlbaier, S. Hackett, and D.B. Mark Comparing risk-adjustment methods for provider profiling Stat Med 16 1997 2645 2664
19. D.M. Shahian, X. He, J.P. Jacobs, and et al. Issues in quality measurement: target population, risk adjustment, and ratings Ann Thorac Surg 96 2013 718 726
20. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Pediatric Quality Indicators. Available at: http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Modules/PDI-TechSpec.aspx. Accessed January 8, 2015.
21. National Quality Forum. 0339 RACHS-1 pediatric heart surgery mortality (REVISED), 0340 Pediatric heart surgery volume(REVISED). Available at: http://www.qualityforum.org/Projects/Surgery-Maintenance.aspx#t=2&s=&p=3|4|. Accessed January 8, 2015.
22. National Quality Forum. 0733 Operative Mortality Stratified by the Five STS-EACTS Mortality Categories. Available at: www.qualityforum.org. Accessed January 8, 2015.
23. J.B. Dimick, L.H. Nicholas, A.M. Ryan, J.R. Thumma, and J.D. Birkmeyer Bariatric surgery complications before vs after implementation of a national policy restricting coverage to centers of excellence JAMA 309 2013 792 799
24. M.J. Strickland, T.J. Riehle-Colarusso, J.P. Jacobs, and et al. The importance of nomenclature for congenital cardiac disease: implications for research and evaluation Cardiol Young 18 Suppl 2 2008 92 100
25. Jacobs JP, Jacobs ML, Mavroudis C, et al. Executive Summary: STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database-Twenty-first Harvest-(July 1, 2010-June 30, 2014). The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.